Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard met briefly with Pope Francis on Wednesday and invited the pontiff to Montreal to attend the city's 375th-anniversary celebrations in 2017. Couillard had a 45-second conversat…

The fire chief of L’Isle-Verte has stepped down. Charron was at the helm of the town's volunteer service when a fire broke out at the Résidence Du Havre in January 2014. A Quebec coroner criticized Charron for his team’s response to the fire that tore through the building, killing 32 people. Cyrille ​Delâge's report questioned several …

The Manitoba government is promising to install fire sprinklers in all its hospitals, personal care homes and group home by 2025, with some of the work already starting this year. Existing facilities that do not have sprinklers already will be retrofitted, the province announced Tuesday. Last year, CBC News found that …

Labour Minister Sam Hamad made the announcement Tuesday in Quebec City. Hamad said residences without sprinkler systems will have five years to install them. ​The coroner's report, released Feb. 12, looked into the factors that contributed to the deaths of 32 people after a fire swept through a seniors' residence in L'Isle-Verte, …

The Quebec Association of Fire Chiefs says it agrees with many of the recommendations outlined in a coroner's report into last year's deadly fire at a seniors' residence in L'Isle-Verte, Que. They also supported a recommendation from the coroner to merge some of the province's fire departments. Sylvain Dufresne, speaking …

By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - A 2014 fire that killed 32 people at a Quebec nursing home was made worse by inadequate staffing, delays by rescuers and a section of the building that failed to meet provincial codes, a coroner's report said on Thursday. Quebec Coroner Cyrille Delage's report was based on the testimony …

In a sprawling, 141-page report released today, a Quebec coroner pointed to six factors that contributed to the deaths of 32 people after a fire swept through a seniors' residence in L'Isle-Verte, Que.

Quebec coroner Cyrille Delâge is expected to release his report into the deadly fire at a l’Isle-Verte seniors’ home on Thursday morning. The Résidence du Havre burned on Jan. 23, 2014, killing 32 seniors. The report follows a coroner’s inquest, which was mandated by the province’s Ministry of Public Security. At the …

Exactly one year after a major fire burned down a seniors’ residence in the town of L’Isle-Verte, Que. killing 32 people, those who work in seniors' homes across the province say little has changed to make them safer. It can't happen again,” said Yves Desjardins, the CEO of the Quebec Seniors Housing Association. The …

A year after a seniors’ home fire claimed the lives of 32 people in the small Quebec community of L’Isle-Verte, questions remain about the training and capabilities of volunteer fire services across the province. After a spate of lawsuits launched by insurers, the government had no choice but to bring forward change and, …

Some residents of Quebec’s rural communities are worried after receiving a letter saying Telus is cancelling its pager service across Canada, effective March 31. Darlene Rowsell Roberts, an administrator for several anglophone coastline villages near Labrador, on Quebec’s Lower North Shore, said many of the province’s …